Gwyneth Paltrow is rather like Us in not less than one respect: she has sophisticated emotions about an ex — and, in her case, that ex is Brad Pitt.
Paltrow, now 52, and Pitt, now 61, started relationship after working collectively on David Fincher‘s horror traditional Se7en in 1994, obtained engaged in 1996 and break up in 1997. As revealed in Amy Odell‘s upcoming Gwyneth: The Biography, Paltrow, had a mournful response to Pitt’s 1999 much-covered marriage ceremony to fellow A-lister Jennifer Aniston — not that she shared it with the general public.
As Odell writes, Paltrow obtained snappy throughout a September 2000 interview on the Toronto Movie Pageant premiere of Duets (starring Gwyneth and directed by her later father, Bruce Paltrow), calling a reporter “very gossipy” for a query about one other ex, Ben Affleck. Issues didn’t enhance from there, as revealed on this ebook excerpt unique to Us Weekly:
The reporter then requested how she felt about Brad Pitt marrying Jennifer Aniston [in July of that year]. “Are you actually asking me this query?” Gwyneth replied, her eyes now “daggers.” “I can’t touch upon this type of factor.” In actuality, Gwyneth confided to pals that she’d felt unhappy when she realized they have been getting married. (She was additionally keen on telling them that Brad “has horrible style in girls.”)
As most readers of Us possible recall, Pitt and Aniston obtained engaged in November 1999 and wed in Malibu on July 29, 2000 — in the end divorcing 5 years later, in October 2005, as Pitt’s romance together with his Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar Angelina Jolie heated up.

That very same 12 months, throughout a enterprise assembly with Aerin Lauder — a fellow Manhattan socialite and a part of the Estee Lauder cosmetics dynasty which might signal Paltrow because the face of its Pleasures perfume — she couldn’t resist taking a shot, Odell writes:
At one dinner, the 2 have been speaking about Brad Pitt. In response to somebody accustomed to the dialogue, Gwyneth allegedly instructed her, “He’s dumber than a sack of s–t.”
“He was introduced up very non secular, in Missouri,” Odell instructed Folks of the stark distinction between Paltrow and Pitt. “It’s only a very totally different world from hers, rising up in Manhattan, going to [elite private school] Spence, I believe she thought he wasn’t subtle sufficient for her. She thought she was smarter, higher educated, extra subtle.”

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Regardless, Pitt had the stamp of approval from Paltrow’s household. “Her dad [Bruce Paltrow] beloved Brad,” Odell instructed Folks. “Her pals beloved Brad. They thought he was the nicest man.”
In a 2023 look on “Name Her Daddy,” Paltrow stated she was “completely heartbroken” after their 1997 break up.
“It was the precise factor at the moment, however it was actually onerous,” Paltrow defined. “There have been a variety of issues that had occurred, he was 9 years older than me — he knew what he needed, he was able to do it and I used to be sort of everywhere.”
Paltrow ultimately wed Coldplay’s Chris Martin in 2003, and so they welcomed youngsters Apple and Moses. Following their well-known aware uncoupling (learn: divorce) in 2016, Paltrow lastly discovered her Brad: TV author and producer Brad Falchuk, her husband since 2018.
Gwyneth: The Biography can be launched on July 29 and is obtainable for pre-order now.